HER GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT

Chapter 21: The stag and bachelorette party

It was settled. The boys were going to crush at Nick's penthouse while the ladies were taking celebrations at Ruth's. The rules were out in the table. The first one was amazing. No strippers. The second was obvious. No drugs and the final one was no unnecessary calls. The captain of every party signed the makeshift contract before they left.

The girls laughing at the boys because they didn't have a celebrity but nick told them the night was still young. They were curious. He was well known in the city some of the celebrities were a call away from him. That was the best night they ever had. The girls feasted on wine scrolling through the perfect wedding dresses they were going to wear. The shoes and flowers the honey moon destination. Kind of cake and the gifts they were going to shower Anita with. Linda got so excited that she apologized for threatening to break their love story. She was forgiven instantly. Why hold grades when you had a ring on your finger and in less than five days you're going to say your vows on the altar? They were not surprised it was the iconic reverend Tom White who was going to tie the knot. He was well known and respected. Anita didn't want to spoil the mood by telling them how the man of God hit on her. It could have ruined the authenticity of the wedding.

Another thing she didn't dare say was how rich and powerful she was going to be as an administrator of Collins property. It stayed with her. She shoved it at the back of her mind as bottles of wine were getting laid to waste. There was music and dances. A twerk night as Kyla showed them her prowess. They doubted if she had a pelvic girdle. Ruth sucked at it but with practice she became good at it. Then karaoke and a movie night.

On their side, the boys had alcohol music and a PlayStation. They did not talk much about the wedding in fact Dave was the only one concerned about the dress code and cars. Nick and James were enjoying the game with half full glasses of the finest whiskey by their sides. Dave finally stopped being uptight and joined them. They joked about how tough it was going to be for James to keep it in his pants now that he was going to get married. They teased nick being the next in line. It didn't matter if Tania was going to win the bridesmaids banquet catching competition. She had already thought of it and there was no turning back. The girl’s video called that night. They did not trust the boys to keep their end of the bargain.

"What you guys don't trust us?" Dave asked.

"No we just called to remind ourselves how cute you guys are", Tania said.

"Exactly", Anita and Kyla said in unison. Ruth and Linda were in the background enjoying the movie.

"No am not buying it", Nick said.

"Me neither", James added.

"Okay we called to say goodnight", Anita said the girls nodding in agreement.

"Goodnight", the boys said and hung up.

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After personally dropping them to school that morning Ben wanted to see Urdinof. The twenty four hour deadline he had promised was around the corner.

"Stay safe dad", Mary said before she ran away to join her classmates.

"You too Angel", Ben said waving at her, “And put on your mask properly!” he shouted after her.

Jake had already left. The dropping off and getting them ready had taught him some responsibility. He was not a delinquent but there were some aspects of his relationship with his own children that he didn't know. It had been a strange week. He imagined how much the little children squeezed from Ruth on a daily basis. It wasn't easy. Ben drove off from Morning star academy parking lot at exactly eight in the morning. He was on his way to see Urdinof for a feedback.

The guy was competent. He wanted a chance to meet Ruth and tell her who her enemy was in person. Just like the children he had missed her. Probably even more than them and he wanted to see her warm smile and smell her scent. Waft it dernly in his nostrils and inhale it. Above all he missed the s*x and all the nasty childish stuff they did to each other in the bathroom. The mustarbation was not helping. Her naked pictures he took once while she was asleep could not give him the satisfaction he wanted. But how was he going to ask for it? Their code word "The red room" which came about because of the red lights, matching red bra and panties and roses on the bed. Red candles and rated R music” among all the red stuff she did when she wanted him inside of her so bad. The word couldn't work with their underlying situation. She could have used the s*x as a weapon of choice in their war and yet she enjoyed it more than he did.

Of course women do enjoy s*x more than men. Ben had read it somewhere on an adult blog. The writer sounded like a male chauvinist asking men not to try so hard to satisfy their women to an extent that they started using the blue pill. He had never used one at least not knowingly but he had started believing s*x was some form of Altruism for men. It drains their energy while women enjoy it lying in their backs. Until one day Ruth took control over him. He had never forgotten that day. She rode him like a horse with her nails buried in on his breasts his hands were supporting her ass and she was screaming and cursing while he buried his toes in the mattress. She had a multiple o****m and collapsed on top of him while Ben was far away from Cumming. So he flipped her over and continued pounding in her soaking wet honey pot. Ben smiled with embarrassment as he neared Urdinof’s headquarters in town. If traffic police could read minds he was looking at a jail sentence.

He was frisked at the entrance as required by protocol. Ben was looking nice in a black three piece suit with black leather semi boguesy shoes. A blue contrast shirt with white collar with a Blancpain villeret leather strapped watch on his left hand. His dress code screamed money and effluence. The secretary led him inside Urdinofs office. Walls painted with army colors. Pictures of Urdinof and his former units hanging on the wall.

"Welcome Benjamin", Urdinof said getting up from his seat to give him the five knuckles.

"Morning you don't refer to me as Benjamin what's changed?" Ben asked unbuttoning his coat.

"Well let's just say I found out that indeed you didn't vandalize your wife's office", Urdinof said smiling.

"Not funny army man what do you have for me?"

"The culprit. Mr. Henry Sweetwater, your wife and her team forced him to face the law when r***d and molested his own niece", Urdinof said giving the file.

Ben grabbed the file looked through it carefully. He imagined the Lisa girl being his Mary and his blood boiled with anger. The fact that Henry got bailed out still angered him even more. To him such individuals were to be alienated from the general population. Kept in a dungeon for many years without seeing light. They were not to be treated as humans anymore their behavior was enough to relinquish that right and even the slightest consideration of humanity. He was also proud of Ruth. He imagine how many women and girls had gone through the same mistreatment and they were still going through it with no one to help them. And the parents. He hated them. They had failed in their duty and he didn't consider them as parents anymore.

"Why hasn't Noah arrested this hooligan?" Ben asked shaking his head in disappointment.

"There was no enough evidence", Urdinof said putting his statement in hand quotes.

"That's a joke right? Here is a medical examination report his semen was found in the girls.... Genitals", Ben argued showing him the report.

"You have the evidence now what you gon do?"

"Taking it to Ruth she'll know what to do"

"And Henry?"

"If they don't arrest him you know what to do", Ben said boiling with anger.

"Been longing to hear that. I can't believe I fought for this country to be safe and someone is plucking unripe mangoes from the trees", Urdinof said blowing his nose.

"Thank you for this" Ben said raising the file on his way out.

He did not know Henry very well but he sure as hell wanted to meet him and punch him in the face. Kick him in the balls and rip out his heart. It all justified why Ruth was fighting and he was even having second thoughts on forcing her to quit. Still something was telling him there were people out there who could do what she was doing. Ben wanted influence and control. To make more money than his peers and he couldn't do it alone. Not without the woman of dreams by his side. He already had money but it’s never enough. He was hoping after showing her the real culprit she was going to change her mind and quit without hesitation. It was time they got back together and salvaged their family from the forces that were ripping it apart. Build it up again and work on their legacy. When he called her that morning she sounded sick.

Part of him knew he was to blame for it. As a matter of fact he was well aware that everything that was going wrong in her life had its sources from him. Benjamin chestnut the man trying to prove his peers, father and mother wrong. Yet something about keeping his word and returning the file to her made him think he was going to be forgiven. He drove back to his own home that circumstances had forced him to desert and now he was living in a penthouse owned by one of his friends. It was a despicable thing to do but again it was necessary in showing his stubborn wife to what length he was willing to stoop so low. His home was still beautiful as he left it. The guard opened the gate for him locked it and rushed to help him with anything he was carrying.

“Good day sir” He said standing by.

“Good day, is she in?” ben asked getting out of the car with the file in his right hand, the car keys on the left.

“Yes she is in with friends”, he said shying off.

“By friends you mean girls?” asked Ben sounding off.

He couldn’t imagine finding another man in his own house having his way with his legally married wife. If that was art of their war then she would have gone too far.

“Yes sir, girls they had a party yesterday”

“Okay” Ben said getting in the house.

The guard realized there was nothing else for him to do so he left. Ben stumbled on bottles of whiskey on his way to their bedroom. He knocked once then twice there was no answer. He decided to get in Ruth was lying sprawled on the bed with her uncovered thighs tinkling his loins. She was putting on what seemed like a miniskirt. He admired her before shaking sleep out of her

"Partying seriously Ruth??"

"You should try it sometime it's a stress reliever", She said still covered in her duvet.

"I have the culprit", Ben said confidently.

He was seated in the edge of their huge bed.

"And I thought you missed me", She said quickly getting up.

"Yeah that one too", Ben said leaning in for a kiss.

"Not happening", Ruth said snatching the file away from him.